Thursday, June 30, 2016

LHP Anthony Vasquez allowed just one unearned run over 8.0 IP
and the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (46-35) took the lead for good with a run
in the bottom of the eighth en route to a 2-1 win over the Charlotte
Knights (38-44) on Thursday night at Coca-Cola Park.

This Sunday, July 3, 2016, Antenna TV will bring you the Norman Lear's
Favorites Marathon. His shows were the center of the golden age of
television and his shows are at the heart of Antenna TV. Now legendary
TV producer and writer Norman Lear has personally picked his favorite
episodes exclusively for Antenna TV. With a mix of social commentary and
brilliant comedy, watch these classic episodes along with Norman's own
personal memories. The all-time classics begin at 3pm this Sunday
beginning with All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, One Day at a Time and The Jeffersons. Please see below for the schedule:

The PaHSSBCA
(Pennsylvania High School Softball Association)all-state softball teams
for the just completed 2016 season have been announced. Over 220 high
school coaches and 160 sportswriters were part of this process. I was
one of the sportswriters involved.Read more

The 4th of July weekend is coming quickly upon us and our
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Independence Day is almost here as the IronPigs continue their
homestand on Wednesday, June 29 against the Columbus Clippers at 7:05
p.m. Fireworks, giveaways and more are on tap during this special
holiday week at Coca-Cola Park.

And now we have ABC's Fall 2016 premiere dates! ABC will launch the
2016-17 season with a stable of returning hit shows and five new series
to join the schedule. The new season kicks off with Dancing with the Stars making its 23rd season premiere on Monday, September 12 from 8-10pm. ABC will have the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 18. On Tuesday, September 20, ABC will have a two-hour Dancing with the Stars Results Show leading into the season premiere of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD at 10. ABC's Wednesday comedies launch on Sept. 21 with The Goldbergs at its new time of 8pm leading into new comedy Speechless starring Minnie Driver at 8:30pm. Megahit Modern Family and black-ish follow in the 9pm hour. Then at 10pm, new drama Designated Survivor starring Kiefer Sutherland in his return to primetime premieres. On Thursday, Sept. 22, ABC's TGIT block returns with Grey's Anatomy at 8, new drama Notorious inspired
by the true-life stories of famed criminal defense attorney Mark
Geragos and cable news producer Wendy Walker, airs at 9pm as Scandal is held to mid-season due to Kerry Washington's pregnancy. At 10pm, the season premiere of How To Get Away With Murder will premiere. The next night on Friday, Sept. 23, the consistent Friday line-up returns with Last Man Standing at 8, Dr. Ken at 8:30, Shark Tank at 9 and 20/20 at 10.

C Andrew Knapp, OF Cam Perkins and RHP Edward Mujica will serve as the IronPigs' representatives at the 29th
annual Triple-A All-Star Game to be played on July 13 at BB&T Bank
Ballpark in Charlotte, N.C., the International League announced on
Wednesday. The 2016 Triple-A All-Star Game will be nationally televised
on the MLB Network, beginning at 7 p.m.

American Monarch Theatre Company and Nazareth High School Theatre
Troupe are teaming up this summer to raise awareness and funds for the
Lehigh Valley chapters of AFSP and NAMI! Come enjoy a night of uplifting
and encouraging music that all benefits two gret causes in the Lehigh
Valley that are saving lives each day through breaking down the stigma
of Mental Illness.

If you don't get enough racing this weekend at Pocono Raceway from
the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, you may want to return to the Tricky
Triangle in Long Pond a week from today for a Verizon IndyCar Series
test that will feature many of open-wheel racing's biggest stars.

Freeform's No. 1 comedy Baby Daddy has been picked up for a sixth
season which will take the series to 100 episodes. The hit comedy
launched the back-half of its fifth season June 1 to time-period winning
ratings and has grown in subsequent weeks to near 1-year ratings highs
in key target demographics. In season six, Ben will remain on his quest
to find the "girl of his dreams" and Emma's new mom while Danny and
Riley figure out their future. Baby Daddy follows Ben (Jean-Luc
Bilodeau), a young man in New York City living a bachelor's life with
his buddy, Tucker (Tahj Mowry), and his brother, Danny (Derek Theler), a
professional hockey player. Their lives are turned upside down when
they came home one day to find a baby girl left on the doorstep by an
ex-girlfriend of Ben's. Ben and his close-knit family and friends,
including his overbearing mom Bonnie (Melissa Peterman) and close friend
Riley (Chelsea Kane) band together to raise baby Emma together,
navigating lives and loves with a kid in tow.

The Stellar
Summer Boys Basketball League has a big couple of nights ahead as it
completes the regular season and gets out of the way in time for the two
big tournaments coming up the next two weeks.Read more

Hulu has announced Fall 2016 premiere dates for a returning comedy, a
new special and three all-new dramas. First up is the special The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years.
That premieres Saturday, September 17 and is directed and produced by
Ron Howard. Based on the first part of The Beatles' career (1962-1966),
Ron Howard's film will explore how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George
Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary
phenomenon, "The Beatles." Then it is season five of The Mindy Project,
streaming weekly beginning Tuesday, October 4 for 16 episodes and
starring Mindy Kaling, Ed Weeks, Ike Barinholtz, Beth Grant, Xosha
Roquemore and Fortune Feimster. The comedy of course is a single-camera
comedy series created by and starring Emmy(R)-nominated writer/producer
and New York Times best-selling author Mindy Kaling, which follows a
skilled OB/GYN navigated the tricky waters of both her personal and
professional life.

Sunday, June 26, 2016

David Lough's go-ahead RBI groundout in the top of the 10th
helped lift the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (45-32) to a 3-2 win and
three-game sweep of the Durham Bulls (34-44) on Sunday evening at Durham
Bulls Athletic Park.

Summer has now started. We will be back with our normal weekly ratings
report with the first four nights numbers and analysis in the fall, but
we still will have our regular how the sitcoms did all summer long! Here
are our summer ratings:

Welcome
to SitcomsOnline Digest! This week, we have news of when Hulu will bring back the next season of The Mindy Project,
a new deal between Amy Poehler and NBC, and a very surprising upcoming
DVD release of a lost sitcom spinoff of the 70s. Let's get going!

Friday, June 24, 2016

RHP David Buchanan allowed just one run over six innings and a
pair of runs in the sixth for Lehigh Valley helped lift the IronPigs
(43-32) to a 4-1 win over the Durham Bulls (34-42) on Friday night at
Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

Decades Network, the multicast TV network from Weigel Broadcasting Co.
and CBS Television Stations, announced a special anniversary event
marking the premiere of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. Scheduled for Monday, June 27, this anniversary tribute comes to Decades 50 years to the day of the first broadcast of Dark Shadows
in 1966. Twelve of the series' most well-known shows will be featured,
including the debut episodes of vampire Barnabas Collins. From the first
notes of its distinctly haunting musical theme, to the innovative
storylines that transformed daytime television, to its iconic cast of
characters, Dark Shadows transported audiences to the mysterious
town of Collinsport, Maine, and they never looked back. Decades
remembers the premiere of this cult favorite with the 12 episodes that
marked the beginning of the Barnabas storyline, one that propelled the
daytime series to new heights. The episodes will be presented in groups
of three at 9:00am ET, 3:00pm ET, 9:00pm ET and 3:00am ET. Log on to Decades.com to find out where to watch the Decades TV Network.

BET has added Eve and In the House to its schedule featuring rappers Eve and LL Cool J. The sitcoms join the BET morning block of sitcoms from 8am-12pm, with Martin on Mondays, House of Payne on Tuesdays, Fresh Prince on Wednesdays, Eve on Thursdays and In the House on Fridays. Eventually the two new additions will air on most weeknights from 6-8pm, too, with an hour of each show. Eve and In the House will also air in late night blocks with The Jamie Foxx Show and The Game beginning at 2am. Eve
starred Eve, Jason George, Ali Landry, Natalie Desselle-Reid, Brian
Hooks, and Sean Maguire. It aired on the UPN from 2003-2006, with 66
episodes. In the House starred LL Cool J, Maia Campbell, Debbie Allen,
Kim Wayans, and Alfonso Ribeiro. It aired on NBC from 1995-96, before
moving to UPN from 1996-1999. Keep it right here for continued updates.

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

CBS is next to announce their Fall 2016 premiere dates, joining NBC, Fox
and CW. ABC is the only one left now. The multi-phase rollout to the
new season kicks-off (literally) with Thursday Night Football on Sept. 15. Case Closed,
a six-hour/three-night limited series event docu-thriller that
re-examines the unsolved JonBenét Ramsey murder 20 years later, debuts
Sunday, Sept. 18 from 8:30-10:30pm. Part two airs the following night
(Monday, Sept. 19) from 9-11pm and the finale is Sunday, Sept. 25 from
8:30-10:30pm. Premiere Week opens with The Big Bang Theory, leading into the series premiere of Kevin Can Wait starring Kevin James at 8:30PM on Monday, Sept. 19. New drama Bull joins NCIS and NCIS: New Orleans when they premiere Tuesday, Sept. 20, with Bull at 9pm. Survivor returns on Wednesday, Sept. 21 with a 90-minute premiere leading into the 90-minute finale of Big Brother. Then, MacGyver debuts Friday, Sept. 23 at 8:00 PM, followed by the season premieres of Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods. On Sunday, Sept. 25, 60 Minutes has its season premiere following NFL coverage at approx. 7:30 PM.

Reading beat Emmaus in the second round of the PIAA 4A tournament in
March and the Red Knights prevailed over the Green Hornets again on
Tuesday in the Stellar High School Summer Boys Basketball League at
Cedar Beach.

American Monarch Theatre Company and Nazareth High School Theatre
Troupe are teaming up this summer to raise awareness and funds for the
Lehigh Valley chapters of AFSP and NAMI! Come enjoy a night of uplifting
and encouraging music that all benefits two gret causes in the Lehigh
Valley that are saving lives each day through breaking down the stigma
of Mental Illness.

Don't miss FYI's one-hour special Celebrity Renovation, featuring
TV star Alyssa Milano (and a friend to this website) on Saturday, June
25 at 8pm ET/PT on FYI. In this one-hour special, Alyssa Milano (Who's the Boss?, Charmed, Mistresses)
surprises her assistant Kelly by completely renovating her home as she
recovers from her battle with ovarian cancer. With a tight timeline of
just six days, Alyssa quickly assembles a skilled team to execute the
enormous renovation; including a top notch Hollywood interior designer
and a local construction crew. Together, they turn Kelly's outdated
space from drab to fab. Tacky tile floors turn into beautiful hardwood, a
"rock wall" goes from an eyesore to a striking white marble fireplace
and a depressing bar is transformed into a custom-made banquette
breakfast table.

Monday, June 20, 2016

Andrew Knapp's go-ahead RBI single with two outs in the top of the 10th
lifted the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (40-31) to a 5-4 win over the Norfolk
Tides (26-45) in 10 innings on Monday night at Harbor Park.

The CW joins NBC and Fox in releasing their fall 2016 premiere dates.
The CW Network will launch its 2016-17 season in October with three new
additions to its schedule this fall, including the new drama Frequency; Supergirl, which comes to The CW alongside the network's other DC heroes Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow; and the new hour-long romantic comedy No Tomorrow,which joins the critically acclaimed one-hour comedies Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on The CW schedule. The CW's fall season kicks off with its #1 series The Flash, back for season three on Tuesday, October 4 at 8:00pm ET, followed by the charming romantic comedy No Tomorrow starring newcomer Tori Anderson and Joshua Sasse (Galavant) at 9:00pm ET. Arrow
returns to Wednesday nights on October 5 at 8:00pm ET, paired with the
debut of the intense new thriller Frequency at 9:00pm ET, starring
Peyton List (The Tomorrow People), Riley Smith and Mekhi Phifer. The iHeartRadio Music Festival returns to The CW airing over two nights on Thursday, October 6 and Friday, October 7 both nights from 8:00-10:00pm ET.